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How Tuju lost his multi-billion empire in failed investment

Raphael Tuju (pictured), one of Kenya’s big-money politicians, is broke. A Sh933 million loan that the self-made billionaire took five years ago to expand an already vast empire has turned out to be the proverbial poisoned chalice.

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